Currently Nintendo are winning the console war with close to 70 million Wii consoles sold worldwide, however this was not always the case. Infact over the last 10 years Nintendo home consoles have failed to make a huge impact with the N64 and Gamecube being comparative flops when compared to the success of the Playstation, Playstation 2 and the Xbox. The mistakes Nintendo made in the previous three generations of consoles were somewhat fatal to them then, however as a result of these mistakes Nintendo and their Wii console are tremendously successful. Read on to find out how Nintendo’s mistakes caused their downfall in the mid 90’s to their successes now.
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Controls has become one of the biggest (and most important) areas in electrical engineering. However, many times when implementing a controls solution, we need to work with linear systems. The majority of real life systems are not linear! So how do we fix this? With linearization. In this article I’ll walk you through an example of how to linearize a system around a certain state vector and control input!
Example control system
In 1999 Rebellion developed Aliens Vs Predator for the PC which when released went onto to become a cult hit with its exciting story and action packed multiplayer. Two years later a sequel; this time developed by Monolith was released, however it failed to live up to its predecessor. Now 10 years later Rebellion has returned with a new Aliens Vs Predator game. However it again fails to live up to its promise.
Sup /sci/ducks. Time to unveil the resources section of this beast. Over time, it will (hopefully) become a giant repository of knowledge. It’s basically a section where notes, homework sets, and solutions are uploaded/downloaded. You can access it @ http://www.sciduck.com/resources
If you’d like to be a contributor to this section, or the site in general, you can email me or contact me via IRC!
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kevin